(Record Group 18)
1903-64 (bulk 1917-47)

Table of Contents

• 18.1 ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY
  
• 18.2 GENERAL RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER 1914-18
  
• 18.2.1 General records
  
• 18.2.2 Records of the Planning Section of the Equipment Division
  
• 18.2.3 Records of the Balloon Section of the Air Division
  
• 18.3 RECORDS OF THE DIVISION OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS 1914-19 13 lin. ft.
  
• 18.3.1 General records
  
• 18.3.2 Records of the Information Section
  
• 18.3.3 Records of the Radio Branch of the Training Section
  
• 18.4 RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION 1917-21 342 lin. ft.
  
• 18.4.1 Records of the Administration Division
  
• 18.4.2 Records of the Production Division
  
• 18.4.3 Records of the Spruce Production Division (SPD)
  
• 18.4.4 Records of the Airplane Engineering Division
  
• 18.4.5 Records of the Aircraft Board
  
• 18.5 RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF THE AIR SERVICE ANDTHE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF THE AIR CORPS 1917-44 2,410 lin. ft.
  
• 18.5.1 Records of the Administrative Group (Air Service) and theAdministrative Division (Air Corps)
  
• 18.5.2 Records of the Information Group (Air Service) and theInformation Division (Air Service, Air Corps)
  
• 18.5.3 Records of the Supply Group (Air Service) and the MaterialDivision (Air Corps)
  
• 18.5.4 Records of the Training and Operations Group (Air Service)and the Training and Operations Division (Air Corps)
  
• 18.5.5 Records of the Training and War Plans Division (AirService) and the Plans Division (Air Corps)
  
• 18.5.6 Records of miscellaneous Air Service boards
  
• 18.5.7 Records relating to the Air Corps mail operations
  
• 18.6 RECORDS OF GENERAL HEADQUARTERS AIR FORCE AND THE AIR FORCECOMBAT COMMAND 1935-42 207 lin. ft.
  
• 18.6.1 Records of the Office of the Commanding General
  
• 18.6.2 Records of the General Staff
  
• 18.6.3 Records of the Special Staff
  
• 18.7 RECORDS OF HEADQUARTERS ARMY AIR FORCES (AAF) 1917-49 7,472 lin. ft. and 651 rolls of microfilm
  
• 18.7.1 Records of the Office of the Commanding General
  
• 18.7.2 Records of the Office of the Assistant Chief of the AirStaff, A-1 (Personnel)
  
• 18.7.3 Records of the Office of the Assistant Chief of the AirStaff, A-2 (Intelligence)
  
• 18.7.4 Records of the Office of the Assistant Chief of the AirStaff, A-4 (Materiel and Services)
  
• 18.7.5 Records of the Office of the Assistant Chief of the AirStaff, Plans
  
• 18.7.6 Records of the Budget Office
  
• 18.7.7 Records of the Office of the Air Judge Advocate
  
• 18.7.8 Records of the Director of Aircraft Production
  
• 18.7.9 Records of the U.S. Spruce Production Corporation
  
• 18.7.10 Records of Headquarters, Twentieth Air Force
  
• 18.7.11 Records of AAF participation in boards and committees
  
• 18.8 OFFICE FILES OF AIR CORPS AND ARMY AIR FORCES OFFICERS 1922-47 27 lin. ft.
  
• 18.9 RECORDS OF COMMANDS, ACTIVITIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS 1917-45 950 lin. ft.
  
• 18.9.1 Records of air fields and air bases
  
• 18.9.2 Records of aviation schools
  
• 18.9.3 Records of air depots
  
• 18.9.4 Records of aviation examining boards
  
• 18.9.5 Records of Headquarters, I Concentration Command, LukenField, Cincinnati, OH
  
• 18.9.6 Records of Air Service and Air Corps units
  
• 18.10 CARTOGRAPHIC RECORDS (GENERAL) 1917-47 6,657 items
  
• 18.11 MOTION PICTURES (GENERAL) 1912-49 6,059 reels
  
• 18.12 SOUND RECORDINGS (GENERAL) 1945 91 items
  
• 18.13 STILL PICTURES (GENERAL) 1903-64 118,680 images and 1 item
  

18.1 ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY

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Established: In the War Department, to consist of the Air ForceCombat Command (AFCC) and the Air Corps, by revision of ArmyRegulation 95-5, June 20, 1941.

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Predecessor Agencies:

In the Office of the Chief Signal Officer (OCSO), War Department:

• Aeronautical Division (1907-14)
  
• Aviation Section (1914-15)
  
• Aeronautical Division (1915-17)
  
• Air Division/Air Service Division (1917-18)
  
• Division of Military Aeronautics (1918)
  
• Bureau of Aircraft Production (1918)
  

In the War Department:

• Division of Military Aeronautics (1918-19)
  
• Bureau of Aircraft Production (1918-19)
  
• Air Service (1919-26)
  
• Air Corps (1926-41)
  
• General Headquarters Air Force (GHQAF, 1935-41)
  
• Air Force Combat Command (AFCC, 1941)
  

Functions: Provided advice and assistance to the Secretary of Warand other elements of the War Department on all aspects of land-based air offense and defense. Coordinated the design,development, and procurement of aircraft and equipment.Constructed and maintained air bases and air support facilities.Provided training and administrative support to army airpersonnel. Engaged in air intelligence activities.

Abolished: By Transfer Order 1, Office of the Secretary ofDefense, September 26, 1947, implementing reorganizationprovisions of the National Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 495),July 26, 1947.

Successor Agencies: U.S. Air Force (USAF) under the newly createdDepartment of the Air Force, pursuant to provisions of theNational Security Act of 1947 (61 Stat. 502), July 26, 1947.

Finding Aids: Kathleen E. Riley, comp., 'Preliminary Inventory ofthe Records of Headquarters Army Air Forces,' NM 6 (1962); MaizieH. Johnson, comp., 'Preliminary Inventory of the Textual Recordsof the Army Air Forces,' NM 53 (1965); Maizie H. Johnson andSarah Powell, comps., 'Supplement to Preliminary Inventory No.NM-53, Textual Records of the Army Air Forces,' NM 90 (Oct.1967).

Security-Classified Records: This record group may includematerial that is security-classified.

Related Records: Record copies of publications of the Army AirForces in RG 287, Publications of the U.S. Government.Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, RG 340.
Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force (Air Staff), RG 341.
Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, andOrganizations, RG 342.Records of the U.S. Air Force Academy, RG 461.

18.2 GENERAL RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF SIGNAL OFFICER
1914-18.

History: Aeronautical Division established in Office of the ChiefSignal Officer by OCSO Memorandum 6, August 1, 1907, withresponsibility for all aspects of military aviation. Recognizedin law as the Aviation Section by an act of July 18, 1914 (38Stat. 514). Aviation Section organized as the AeronauticalDivision, November 4, 1915.

Under provisions of the National Defense Act (39 Stat. 174), June3, 1916, and the Aviation Act (40 Stat. 243), July 24, 1917,aviation support functions were gradually transferred from theAeronautical Division to newly established OCSO organizations:Procurement and distribution of aviation supplies to EngineeringDivision, April 6, 1917; later designated Finance and SupplyDivision; and redesignated Engineering Division, August 2, 1917.Air field construction and maintenance to Construction Division,May 21, 1917; redesignated Supply Division, October 1, 1917, withadded responsibility for procurement and distribution of aviationsupplies transferred from Engineering Division and vested insubordinate Materiel Section, organized January 24, 1918.Research and design to Aircraft Engineering Division, May 24,1917; redesignated Science and Research Division, October 22,1917. Airplane lumber contracts to Wood Section, August 1917;expanded and redesignated Spruce Production Division (SEE18.4.3), November 15, 1917.

Aeronautical Division redesignated Air Division (also known asAir Service Division), with functions limited to operation,training, and personnel, October 1, 1917. Air Division abolishedby order of Secretary of War, April 24, 1918, and OCSO aviationfunctions realigned to create Division of Military Aeronautics(SEE 18.3), with responsibility for general oversight of militaryaviation; and Bureau of Aircraft Production (SEE 18.4), which hadcharge of design and production of aircraft and equipment.

18.2.1 General records

Textual Records: Extracts of letters, telegrams, and memorandumsof War Department offices, relating to regulations andauthorities for U.S. flying schools, 1917-18. Reports, drawings,photographs, blueprints, and other records relating to airplanesand airplane performance, 1914-18.

Related Records: For aviation correspondence of the Chief SignalOfficer, 1917-18, SEE 18.5.1.

18.2.2 Records of the Planning Section of the Equipment Division

Textual Records: Charts, reports, and correspondence relating tothe organization and duties of the section and to a program ofairplane production, 1917-18.

18.2.3 Records of the Balloon Section of the Air Division

Textual Records: Correspondence relating to balloon instruction,1917-18.

18.3 RECORDS OF THE DIVISION OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS
1914-19

History: Established as part of reorganization of OCSO aviationfunctions, April 24, 1918. Separated from OCSO as an autonomousunit within the War Department by EO 2862, May 20, 1918.Responsible for all aviation functions except aircraftproduction. Consolidated with Bureau of Aircraft Production (SEE18.4) to form Air Service by EO 3066, March 19, 1919. SEE 18.5.

18.3.1 General records

Textual Records: Letters and memorandums relating to theestablishment of the Division of Military Aeronautics, 1916-18.Orders and memorandums relating to policies and proceduresgoverning military aviation, 1918. Balloon bulletins, 1914-18.

Related Records: Record copies of publications of the Division ofMilitary Aeronautics in RG 287, Publications of the U.S.Government.

18.3.2 Records of the Information Section

Textual Records: Correspondence and other records relating toforeign and domestic air services, airplane construction andequipment, flight training, and schools of military aeronautics,1917-19.

18.3.3 Records of the Radio Branch of the Training Section

Textual Records: Reports and other records relating to radiodevelopment and the training of radio officers, 1918-19.

18.4 RECORDS OF THE BUREAU OF AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION
1917-21

History: Established as part of reorganization of OCSO aviationfunctions, April 24, 1918. Separated from OCSO as an autonomousunit within the War Department by EO 2862, May 20, 1918.Responsible for aircraft production. Consolidated with Divisionof Military Aeronautics (SEE 18.3) to form Air Service by EO3066, March 19, 1919. SEE 18.5.

18.4.1 Records of the Administration Division

Textual Records: General correspondence, 1917-19, and issuances,1918-19, of the Executive Department, including correspondence ofthe Executive Department of the Signal Corps Equipment Divisionand of the Director and Assistant Director of AircraftProduction. General correspondence of the Program and StatisticsDepartment, 1917-18.

18.4.2 Records of the Production Division

Textual Records: General correspondence, 1917-18. Organizationalhistories of the Production Division, its subdivisions, and itsfield units, 1917-19. Diaries of the Detroit district office,1918 (in Chicago).

18.4.3 Records of the Spruce Production Division (SPD)

History: Established in OCSO, November 15, 1917, from predecessorWood Section (August 1917), with headquarters in Portland, OR, toincrease the output of timber for airplane construction.Transferred to the Bureau of Aircraft Production (BAP), May 20,1918. Functions and properties of the SPD passed to the U.S.Spruce Production Corporation (SEE 18.7.9), November 1, 1918,with formal demobilization of SPD, August 31, 1919. SpruceProduction Section, originally the Washington, DC, office of theSPD, functioned until 1921.

Textual Records (in Seattle): Issuances, 1917-19. Organizationalhistory, 1917-18. Medical records, 1917-19, including records ofcamp hospitals and infirmaries of Spruce Squadrons 9-150. Generalcorrespondence of the Spruce Production Section, 1917-21.Correspondence, issuances, and other records of Spruce ProductionDistricts headquartered at Clatsop, 1918; Coos Bay, 1918; GraysHarbor and Willapa Bay, 1918; Puget Sound, 1918-19; VancouverBarracks, 1918; and Yaquina Bay, 1918-19. Records of SpruceProduction units, including 1st-4th Provisional Regiments, 1918-19; Casual Detachment, 1918-19; and 1st-98th and 100th-150thSpruce Squadrons, 1917-19.

18.4.4 Records of the Airplane Engineering Division

Textual Records: Correspondence, reports, and other records ofthe Chemistry Section, Science and Research Department, relatingto chemical products used in aircraft production, 1917-18.

18.4.5 Records of the Aircraft Board

Textual Records: Minutes of the board and its predecessor, theAircraft Production Board, May 1917-April 1919. Generalcorrespondence, 1917-18. Resolutions of the board, 1917-18.

18.5 RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF THE AIR SERVICE AND
THE OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF THE AIR CORPS
1917-44

History: Air Service established by EO 3066, March 19, 1919,consolidating Division of Military Aeronautics and Bureau ofAircraft Production. Confirmed as a combat arm by the NationalDefense Act (41 Stat. 759), June 4, 1920. Name changed to AirCorps by the Air Corps Act (44 Stat. 780), July 2, 1926.Responsibility for unit training and tactical air employmenttransferred to General Headquarters Air Force, established March1935. GHQAF renamed Air Force Combat Command and placed with AirCorps under newly established Army Air Forces by revision to ArmyRegulation 95-5, June 20, 1941. AFCC and Office of the Chief ofthe Air Corps abolished in the general reorganization of thearmy, effective March 9, 1942, by Circular 59, War Department,March 2, 1942, implementing EO 9082, February 28, 1942. Air Corpsformally abolished by transfer of functions to newly establishedUnited States Air Force pursuant to the National Security Act of1947 (61 Stat. 502), July 26, 1947. SEE 18.1.

Related Records: Record copies of publications of the Office ofthe Chief of the Air Service in RG 287, Publications of the U.S.Government.

18.5.1 Records of the Administrative Group (Air Service) and the
Administrative Division (Air Corps)

Textual Records: General correspondence of the Office of theChief of the Air Corps and the Office of Chief of the AirService, and their predecessors, including the Office of theChief Signal Officer, 1917-38 (624 ft.). Project files forcorrespondence relating to airfields (666 ft.), camps, forts,corps areas, territorial departments, districts, aviationschools, National Guard units, and aviation examining boards,1917-38; aero squadrons, 1917-22; balloon schools, 1919-22; anddistrict offices of the BAP and Air Service, 1918-21. Documentcollection of the Air Corps Library, 1917-38 (341 ft.), withrelated indexes and card catalogs, 1917-44. Annual reports, 1925-40. Issuances, 1924-42.

18.5.2 Records of the Information Group (Air Service) and the
Information Division (Air Service, Air Corps)

Textual Records: Correspondence, 1917-23, 1929-39. Histories,reports, and studies of the Air Service, American ExpeditionaryForces, 1917-19. Historical files relating to the activities ofthe Division of Military Aeronautics and the BAP in World War I,1917-21.

18.5.3 Records of the Supply Group (Air Service) and the Material
Division (Air Corps)

Textual Records: General correspondence, 1919-21. Recordsrelating to airplane programs and production, 1939-41.Proceedings and related correspondence of the ProcurementPlanning Board, 1925-36. Catalogs and inventories of aircraft andspare parts, 1921. Claims files of the Material Disposal andSalvage Division, Supply Group, 1919-20. General correspondence,1919-26, and correspondence relating to stock liquidation, 1919-24, of the Procurement Section, Supply Division, Supply Group.

18.5.4 Records of the Training and Operations Group (Air Service)
and the Training and Operations Division (Air Corps)

Textual Records: Correspondence and reports relating to cross-country flights, training, and exhibition flights, 1918-21.Correspondence relating to the 1920 Alaskan Flying Expedition,1920, and to the sinking of USS Alabama ('Project B'), 1919.Correspondence and other records relating to balloon companiesand balloon training, 1918-21. Monthly reports from trainingfields and centers, 1921-39.

18.5.5 Records of the Training and War Plans Division (Air
Service) and the Plans Division (Air Corps)

Textual Records: Correspondence, reports, and maps relating todefense and mobilization plans, 1919-35. Correspondence, reports,and other records relating to lighter-than-air craft and tohelium, 1919-26, including records of the 1924 Round-the-WorldFlight. General correspondence and correspondence of the AirwaysSection relating to commercial aviation, 1921-26. Generalcorrespondence and other records of the Photographic Section,1918-25.

18.5.6 Records of miscellaneous Air Service boards

Textual Records: Correspondence and reports of the Air ServiceAdvisory Board, 1919-21. Minutes of meetings, 1918-19, andmiscellaneous records, 1918-21, of the Air Service Claims Board.Correspondence of the Air Service Control Board, 1918-19.

18.5.7 Records relating to the Air Corps mail operations

Textual Records: Correspondence relating to handling of mail bythe Air Corps, February-May 1934, including records ofHeadquarters of the Eastern, Central, and Western Zones.

18.6 RECORDS OF GENERAL HEADQUARTERS AIR FORCE AND THE AIR FORCE
COMBAT COMMAND
1935-42

History: GHQAF established March 1, 1935, by instructions fromHeadquarters Air Corps, February 19, 1935, in compliance withrecommendations of the War Department Special Committee on theArmy Air Corps (Baker Board), as approved by the Secretary ofWar, July 18, 1934, with responsibility, transferred from AirCorps, for unit training and tactical air employment. RenamedAFCC and assigned with Air Corps to newly created Army Air Forcesby Army Regulation 95-5 (revised), June 20, 1941. Formallyabolished in the reorganization of the AAF, effective March 9,1942, by Circular 59, War Department, March 2, 1942, implementingprovisions of EO 9082, February 28, 1942. SEE 18.1.

18.6.1 Records of the Office of the Commanding General

Textual Records: General correspondence, 1939-42 (115 ft).Declassified correspondence, 1936-42. Declassified reportsrelating to intelligence and training, 1935-42. Issuances, 1936-40.

18.6.2 Records of the General Staff

Textual Records: Records of G-2 (Intelligence), consisting ofgeneral correspondence, 1935-42; security-classifiedcorrespondence and reports from army and navy intelligence unitsrelating to foreign aviation, 1939-41; security-classifiedmilitary intelligence instructional material, 1936-41; andsecurity-classified meteorological and climatological studies,1941. Office file of the section chief, G-3 (Operations), 1941-42. Security-classified G-4 (Supply) airplane and enginespecifications, 1936-42.

18.6.3 Records of the Special Staff

Textual Records: Correspondence, 1941-42; and security-classifiedcorrespondence and reports, 1938-42, of the Air Defense Section,including security-classified correspondence and reports relatingto the Aircraft Warning Service, 1941-42. Records of the SignalSection, including general correspondence, 1935-42;correspondence relating to codes and ciphers, 1936-42; messagefile, 1939-42; security-classified air maneuver files, 1935-41;radio equipment and systems files, 1936-42; and issuances, 1935-42.

18.7 RECORDS OF HEADQUARTERS ARMY AIR FORCES (AAF)
1917-49

18.7.1 Records of the Office of the Commanding General

Textual Records: General correspondence, 1939-48 (2,268 ft.),with cross- reference sheets to correspondence with air forceofficers, 1942-44, and a microfilm copy of cross-reference sheetsto correspondence with federal agencies and members of Congress,1939-42 (20 rolls). Security-classified general correspondence,1939-48 (1,624 ft.). Separate project files for correspondencerelating to airfields (300 ft.), camps and forts, corps areas,territorial departments, and foreign bases and air forces, 1939-42. Security-classified project file relating to foreigncountries, 1942-44. Unclassified, confidential, and secretincoming and outgoing messages, 1941-47, with microfilm copy,1941-45 (631 rolls). Top secret incoming and outgoing messages,1941-47. AAF World War II combat operations records ('MissionReports'), consisting of narrative and statistical summaries,intelligence reports, field orders, loading lists, and otherrecords, arranged by unit, 1941-46 (1,855 ft.). Statisticalsummaries and other papers relating to World War II combatoperations of the various air forces, 1942-45. Eighth BomberCommand 'Day Raid' reports, 1942-43. Eighth Air Force tacticalmission reports, 1943-45. General correspondence, 1939-42; andAAF policy letters, 1946-47, of the Air Adjutant General.Security-classified document collection of the Air Corps and AAFLibrary, 1939-49, with indexes.

Microfilm Publications: M1065.

Related Records: For additional records of the Air Corps Library,SEE 18.5.1.

18.7.2 Records of the Office of the Assistant Chief of the Air
Staff, A-1 (Personnel)

Textual Records: Personnel correspondence, 1939-46.Correspondence and other records relating to ground safetyprograms, 1943-48.

18.7.3 Records of the Office of the Assistant Chief of the Air
Staff, A-2 (Intelligence)

Textual Records: Records relating to German, French, and Austrianindustrial installations, 1940-45.

18.7.4 Records of the Office of the Assistant Chief of the Air
Staff, A-4 (Materiel and Services)

Textual Records: Records relating to the Congressionalinvestigation of the wartime activities of Maj. Gen. Bennett E.Myers, Director of Aircraft Production, 1942-47. Research anddevelopment records, 1941-46. Records of the Office of the AirEngineer relating to overseas air base construction, 1943-46, andconstruction in the European and Mediterranean Theaters ofOperations, 1942-45. Correspondence and other records of theInternational Branch of the Supply Division, including minutes ofthe Munitions Assignment Committee and Joint Munitions AssignmentCommittee, relating to allocations of aircraft, engines, andspare parts under the Lend-Lease Act, 1941-48.

18.7.5 Records of the Office of the Assistant Chief of the Air
Staff, Plans

Textual Records: General correspondence, 1942-45. Correspondencerelating to aircraft procurement, production, and programrequirements, 1941-46. Correspondence of the Operational PlansDivision relating to AAF strategic planning, 1944-45.

18.7.6 Records of the Budget Office

Textual Records: Budget estimates of the Division of MilitaryAeronautics, BAP, Air Service, and Air Corps, 1918-42.

18.7.7 Records of the Office of the Air Judge Advocate

Textual Records: General correspondence, 1943. Records of thePatent Branch, including security-classified records relating topatent applications ('Inventors File'), 1918-45; andcorrespondence and other records concerning disclosures oninventions furnished through the Office of Scientific Researchand Development college programs, 1941-46.

18.7.8 Records of the Director of Aircraft Production

Textual Records: General correspondence and other records, 1941-44.

18.7.9 Records of the U.S. Spruce Production Corporation

History: Established August 20, 1918, as a corporation under thelaws of the State of Washington by the Director of AircraftProduction pursuant to an act authorizing the creation ofmarketing corporations (40 Stat. 888), July 9, 1918, tofacilitate business activities of lumber production and sale oftimber products to Allied governments and airplane factories,with Brig. Gen. Brice P. Disque, director of the SpruceProduction Division (SEE 18.4.3), serving as corporationpresident. Acquired functions and properties of Spruce ProductionDivision, November 1, 1918. Last meeting held November 1946, atwhich time provision was made for liquidation.

Textual Records (in Seattle): General correspondence, 1918-46,with name and subject card indexes. Minutes of meetings ofcorporation stockholders, 1918- 46. Progress reports, 1918-19.Field survey notebooks, 1917-23. Contracts, 1917-43.Miscellaneous financial reports, vouchers, and records, 1918-46.

18.7.10 Records of Headquarters, Twentieth Air Force

Textual Records: Correspondence relating to the use of B-29's inthe Pacific; incoming and outgoing messages; and mission reportsof the 20th and 21st Bomber Commands, 1944-45.

18.7.11 Records of AAF participation in boards and committees

Textual Records: Report of the Reprogramming Committee of the AirBoard relating to the long-range AAF program, February 1947.Records accumulated by Theodore Von Karman, Director of the AAFScientific Advisory Board and its predecessor, the AAF ScientificAdvisory Group, relating to the long-range AAF science researchand development program, 1941-47.

18.8 OFFICE FILES OF AIR CORPS AND ARMY AIR FORCES OFFICERS
1922-47

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Textual Records: Briefs of incoming and outgoing messages ofprimary interest to Gen. Henry Harley ('Hap') Arnold, CommandingGeneral, AAF ('General Arnold's Logs'), 1942-45. Issuances,reports, messages, and other documents concerning the assignmentsand activities of Lt. Col. Frank Andrews, 1932; Lt. Gen. Ira C.Eaker, 1945-47; Maj. Gen. James R. Fechet, 1925-30; Maj. Gen.Benjamin F. Giles, 1945-46; Maj. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, 1939-45;Lt. Gen. Harold A. McGinnis, 1944-45; Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick,1922-27; Gen. Carl A. Spaatz, 1946-47; Lt. Gen. George E.Stratemeyer, 1942; and Brig. Gen. Lyman P. Whitten, 1941-46.

18.9 RECORDS OF COMMANDS, ACTIVITIES, AND ORGANIZATIONS
1917-45

18.9.1 Records of air fields and air bases

Note: Additional records described below are candidates fortransfer to regional archives. Please consult the NationalArchives to determine current locations.

Textual Records: Records of Albrook Field, Balboa, CZ, 1932-39;Barksdale Field, Shreveport, LA, 1933-39; Barron Field, Everman,TX, 1917-21; Bolling Field, Washington, DC, 1918-39; BrindleyField, Commack, Long Island, NY, 1918; Brook Field, San Antonio,TX, 1918-22, 1929-39; Call Field, Wichita Falls, TX, 1917-19;Carlstrom Field, Arcadia, FL, 1918-21 (in Atlanta); CarruthersField, Benbrook, TX, 1918-19; Chandler Field, Essington, PA,1917- 19; Chanute Field, Rantoul, IL, 1917-39 (in Chicago);Chapman Field, Miami, FL, 1918-19 (in Atlanta); Crissy Field,Presidio of San Francisco, CA, 1922- 23 (in San Francisco); HenryJ. Damm Field, Babylon, Long Island, NY, 1918; Dorr Field,Arcadia, FL, 1918-19 (in Atlanta); Duncan Field, San Antonio, TX,1926-27, 1930-39; Eberts Field, Lonoke, AR, 1917-20; EllingtonField, Houston, TX, 1917-22; Flying Field, Park Place, Houston,TX, 1918-19; Gerstner Field, Lake Charles, LA, 1917-19; HamiltonField, San Rafael, CA, 1929-40 (in San Francisco); HazelhurstField, Mineola, Long Island, NY, 1918-19; Hickam Field, Honolulu,HI, 1939 (in San Francisco); Kelly Field, San Antonio, TX, 1917-39; Langley Field, Hampton, VA, 1917-39; Lindbergh Field, SanDiego, CA, 1925-41; Love Field, Dallas, TX, 1917-21; Lowry Field,Denver, CO, 1937-39 (in Denver); Lufbery Field, Mineola, LongIsland, NY, 1918; Luke Field, Ford's Island, HI, 1931-38 (in SanFrancisco); McCook Field, Dayton, OH, 1918-20 (in Chicago); MarchField, Riverside, CA, 1918-39; Mather Field, Sacramento, CA,1918-23; Maxwell Field, Montgomery, AL, 1925-40 (in Atlanta);Mitchel Field, Garden City, Long Island, NY, 1917-39; OffutField, Fort Crook, NE, 1936-39 (in Kansas City); Park Field,Millington, TN, 1917-20 (in Atlanta); Patterson Field, Fairfield,OH, 1920-39 (in Chicago); Payne Field, West Point, MS, 1918-19(in Atlanta); Pope Field, Fayettville, NC, 1918-1919 (in Atlanta); Post Field, Fort Sill, OK, 1918-19 (in Atlanta); Randolph Field, San Antonio, TX, 1920-39; Rich Field, Waco, TX,1918-19; Rockwell Field, Coronado, CA, 1917-35; Roosevelt Field,Mineola, Long Island, NY, 1918; Ross Field, Arcadia, CA, 1918-29;Scott Field, Belleville, IL, 1917-39 (in Chicago); SelfridgeField, Mt. Clemens, MI, 1917-37 (in Chicago); Souther Field,Americus, GA, 1918-20 (in Atlanta); Taliaferro Field, Hicks, TX,1917-20; Taylor Field, Montgomery, AL, 1918-19; Wilbur WrightField, Fairfield, OH, 1917-19 (in Chicago); and Wright Field,Dayton, OH, 1920-39 (in Chicago).

18.9.2 Records of aviation schools

Note: Additional records described below are candidates fortransfer to regional archives. Please consult the NationalArchives to determine current locations.

Textual Records: Records of the School of MilitaryCinematography, Columbia University, New York, NY, 1917-18;Aerial Photography School, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1918;Aerial Photography School, Rochester, NY, 1918; CollegiateBalloon School, Macon, GA, 1918 (in Atlanta); U.S. Army BalloonSchool, Fort Crook, NE, 1918-19 (in Kansas City); U.S. ArmyBalloon School, Fort Omaha, NE, 1918-21 (in Kansas City); U.S.Army Balloon School, Lee Hall, VA, 1918-20; School of MilitaryAeronautics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1917-19; School ofMilitary Aeronautics, Georgia School of Technology, Atlanta, GA,1917-18 (in Atlanta); School of Military Aeronautics, Universityof Illinois, Urbana, IL, 1917-19 (in Chicago); School of MilitaryAeronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,MA, 1917-18 (in Boston); School of Military Aeronautics, OhioState University, Columbus, OH, 1917-18 (in Chicago); School ofMilitary Aeronautics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1917-18; School of Military Aeronautics, Texas University, Austin, TX,1917-19; Aviation Mechanics Training School, Pratt Institute,Brooklyn, NY, 1918; Aviation Mechanics Training School, St. Paul,MN, 1918-19 (in Chicago); Signal Corps Detachment, David RankinSchool of Mechanical Arts, St. Louis, MO, 1918 (in Kansas City);Air Service Radio School, Columbia University, New York, NY,1918-19; Air Service School for Radio Operators, University ofTexas, Austin, TX, 1918-19; School for Radio Mechanics, CarnegieInstitute of Technology, Pittsburgh, PA, 1918-19; and OfficersSchool, Vancouver Barracks, WA, 1918-19 (in Seattle).

18.9.3 Records of air depots

Note: Additional records described below are candidates fortransfer to regional archives. Please consult the NationalArchives to determine current locations.

Textual Records: Records of the Americus Air Intermediate Depot,Americus, GA, 1921-22 (in Atlanta); Buffalo Aviation GeneralSupply Depot and Acceptance Park, NY, 1918-19; Fairfield AirIntermediate Depot, Fairfield, OH, 1921-31 (in Chicago); GardenCity Air Service Depot, Garden City, Long Island, NY, 1917-19;Hawaiian Air Depot, Honolulu, HI, 1936-39 (in San Francisco);Little Rock Aviation General Supply Depot, Little Rock, AR, 1918-21; Long Island Air Reserve Depot, Long Island City, NY, 1919-23;Middletown Air Depot, Middletown, PA, 1917-39; Panama Air Depot,France Field, Canal Zone, 1927-40; Rockwell Air Depot, Coronado,CA, 1920-39; Sacramento Air Depot, Sacramento, CA, 1938-39 (inSan Francisco); Sam Houston Aviation Supply Depot, Houston, TX,1918; San Antonio Air Depot, Duncan Field, TX, 1918-39; SpeedwayAviation Repair Depot, Indianapolis, IN, 1918-21 (in Chicago);and Wilbur Wright Field Aviation General Supply Depot, Fairfield,OH, 1917-19 (in Chicago).

18.9.4 Records of aviation examining boards

Note: Additional records described below are candidates fortransfer to regional archives. Please consult the NationalArchives to determine current locations.

Textual Records: Records of the Aviation Examining Board,Chicago, IL, 1917- 18 (in Chicago); Aviation Examining Board,Cincinnati, OH, 1917-18 (in Chicago); Aviation Examining Board,Cleveland, OH, 1917-18 (in Chicago); Aviation Examining Board,Dallas, TX, 1918; Aviation Examining Board, Denver, CO, 1917-18(in Denver); Aviation Examining Board, Detroit, MI, 1918 (inChicago); Aviation Examining Board, Fort Sam Houston, TX, 1917-18; Aviation Examining Board, Indianapolis, IN, 1917-18 (inChicago); and Aviation Examining Board, Kansas City, MO, 1917-18(in Kansas City).

18.9.5 Records of Headquarters, I Concentration Command, Luken
Field, Cincinnati, OH

Textual Records: General records, 1941-42. Records of the Chiefof Staff, 1942. Records of A-1 Section (Personnel) and A-2Section (Intelligence), General Staff, 1942. Records of theCommunications Section and Medical Section, Special Staff, 1942.Records of Baer Field Detachment, Fort Wayne, IN, 1942.

18.9.6 Records of Air Service and Air Corps units

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Textual Records: Records of the 1st, 2d, 3d, and 18th Wings,1934-41; 3d, 17th, and 90th Attack Groups, 1920-37; Headquarters,Balloon Group, VI Army Corps, 1918-19; 2d, 5th, 7th, and 20thBombardment Groups, 1917-39; IV Army Corps Observation Group,1918-19; 1st, 8th, 17th, 18th, and 20th Pursuit Groups, 1918-45;1st-1111th Aero Squadrons, 1917-19; 37th Attack Squadron, 1933-38; 11th, 14th, 23d, 72d, and 96th Bombardment Squadrons, 1918-39; 808th and 816th Depot Aero Squadrons, 1918-22; 1st, 4th,12th, 15th, 16th, 21st, 44th, 50th, 82d, and 99th ObservationSquadrons, 1918-40; 95th Pursuit Squadron, 1920-27; 58th, 59th,and 69th Service Squadrons, 1922-36; 31st, 32d, 33d, 35th, 40th,and 42d Air Intelligence Sections, 1921-24; 1st-30th, 32d, 35th,37th, 44th, 46th, 50th, 52d, 55th-57th, 62d, 63d, 65th, 67th-72d,74th, 76th, 101st-105th, and 107th-109th Photographic Sections,1918-37; 1st-20th and 22d-39th Aero Construction Companies, 1918-19; and 1st-10th, 12th-41st, 43d-81st, 91st-99th, 101st, and 102dBalloon and Airship Companies, 1917-30.

18.10 CARTOGRAPHIC RECORDS (GENERAL)
1917-47

Maps (6,084 items): Airfields in Texas, collected by the AviationSection, OCSO, 1917-18 (5 items). Maps prepared by the AirService showing landing fields and other military activities inthe United States, plus experimental air navigation 'strip' maps,1918-25 (19 items). Army Air Corps 'strip' maps, 1929-36 (24items). Weather maps and climatic atlases compiled by the WeatherDivision, 1942-46 (434 items). Sets of published aeronauticalcharts at various scales prepared by the Aeronautical ChartService, including World Aeronautical, World Outline, RegionalAeronautical, Pilotage, and Approach series, with index charts,1939-47 (4,902 items). World War II aeronautical and targetcharts created by the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, A-2(Intelligence) and several of the AAF Commands, including 13thand 14th Army Air Forces, 20th and 21st Bomber Commands, and U.S.Army Air Forces Pacific Ocean Areas-Commander in Chief, PacificOcean Areas (CINCPOA), 1942-45 (700 items).

Aerial Photographs (573 items): Mosaic negatives and printsprepared by the 15th Photographic Section, Crissy Field, CA, and15th Observation Squadron, Scott Field, IL, covering militaryreservations and airfields in several states, 1922-39.

18.11 MOTION PICTURES (GENERAL)
1912-49

Training in swimming through burning oil and surf, U.S. CoastGuard, n.d. (3 reels). Last Rites of the Battleship Maine, SeligCorporation, 1912 (2 reels). Development and use of lighter-than-air craft, 1925-35 (5 reels). Arkansas flood, Air Corps, 1938 (1reel).

World War II training films illustrating the coordination ofoperational units of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in preparing andcompleting a bombing mission, and containing instructions inflight and gunnery and the maintenance and use of aircraft andequipment, 1942-44 (124 reels).

Air Transport Command briefing films, consisting of aerial andground views of terrain and flight routes and landing facilitiesworldwide; and animation for the briefing films, showingparticular flight routes, locations of landing strips, radiobeams, and the principal geographic configuration of specificareas, 1943-45 (743 reels).

World War II combat films and postwar films of prisoner-of-warand internee camps, concentration camps, Axis atrocities,operations in Europe filmed for the documentary Thunderbolt, V-Eand V-J Days, the occupation of Germany and Japan, atomicscientists, the atomic bomb blast over Nagasaki, and damage toNagasaki and Hiroshima, 1942-49 (5,181 reels).

Information films discussing aspects of Army Air Force personnel's dailylife at home and abroad, including interaction with surrounding communities, sports activities, air operations and equipment, and relevant current events, 1943-55 (99 reels).

18.12 SOUND RECORDINGS (GENERAL)
1945
91 items

Radio programs in The Fighting AAF and Your AAF series, whichinclude air combat accounts obtained by radio reporters and othereyewitness accounts of combat, 1945.

18.13 STILL PICTURES (GENERAL)
1903-64

Photographs (75,455 images): Foreign and domestic aircraft, 1903-39 (WP, 13,800 images). U.S. Army balloon and airship facilitiesand school, 1908-20 (MA, 250 images). Early aircraft developed byGlenn H. Curtiss and Glenn L. Martin; activities and personnel atthe Army-Navy Aviation School, Rockwell Field, CA; and prominentindividuals, photographed by H.A. Erickson and Harold A. Taylor,1914-18 (HE, 1,230 images). Aviation activities during World WarI, including aerial photographs, taken by the PhotographicDivision, Signal Corps, and the Photo Section, Air Service,American Expeditionary Forces, under the direction of Maj. EdwardSteichen, 1918-19 (E, 6,335 images). Logging and other activitiesof the Spruce Production Corporation, 1918-20 (SPCA, SPCB, SPCC,SPCD; 500 images). Important figures in history of aviation,1918-45 (HP, 500 images). Flight personnel identificationphotographs, 1911-41 (P, PU; 50,177 images). History andactivities at Scott Field, IL; and landscapes of nearby areas,including military and civilian structures, in IL, KY, MI, MO,IN, FL, and WI, 1923-39 (SF, 1,500 images). In-flight refuelingoperations, 1923 (HER, 10 images). Civil and militaryinstallations in various states and DC, including a photograph ofthe airship Graf Zeppelin over Oakland, CA, 1929, and the damageto Santa Barbara, CA, by a 1925 earthquake, 1925-47 (LMU, 430images). Tuskeegee, AL, Training Field graduates, 1943-46 (T, 723images).

Aerial and Ground Photographs (41,025 images): Airscapes ofpopulation centers, landmarks, national parks, geographicalfeatures, and the aftermath of natural disasters, 1917-64 (AA,AN; 14,750 images). Activities at Air Transport Commandfacilities and bases, and topographical features for guidingpilots along military air routes around the world, 1943-45 (AG,AM, AO, ATC, ZC; 26,275 images).

Lantern Slides (2,200 images): History of military aviation,including persons significant in aviation history, 1903-27 (AH).

Filmstrip (1 item): 'Round the World Flight,' about aviatorsGatty and Wiley Post and their Lockheed-Vega monoplane, 1931(LMU).

Bibliographic note: Web version based on Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States. Compiled by Robert B. Matchette et al. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1995.
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